Music City Brand Madness, Day 9

The first round of voting in our Music City Brand Madness competition generated more than 18,000 of your votes, resulting in 32 Nashville brands that are moving on to Round 2.

Many first-round matches featured like-against-like: burger joint vs. burger joint, professional sports team vs. professional sports team. Things should get even more interesting in this second round, when a burger chain might go toe-to-toe with a massive publicly traded company or a sports team might compete against a music-licensing company.

There are still no right answers here — simply vote for your favorite Nashville brand, using whatever metrics you choose.

See below to vote in today’s featured matches, and check back tomorrow for the next featured group of matches. The group of 16 winners that will be advancing to round three of our competition will be named on March 30.